Then the work tormented him all the time. Day and night one heard him hammering in his workshop. And often, with the work nearly complete, he suddenly became displeased with the shape and skeptical about the delicateness of some setting of the jewels or of some small snag – reason enough to throw the whole work into the crucible again and begin anew.

Then the work left him no peace. Day and night one heard him hammering in his workshop. And often, with the work nearly complete, he suddenly became displeased with the shape and skeptical about the delicateness of some setting of the jewels or of some small snag – reason enough to throw the whole work into the crucible again and begin anew.